Tuesday, July 14, 2009

when data collection run without waiting for ethical approval...

since end of April ago, I've had submitted the ethical approval form and today I got back the comments and it need some clarification and justification....actually this approval is required by my university and I'm still curios of the implementation of this ethical approval...but I do take safe way...just follow my sv's word(actually after I arose to her last December about this ethical approval)..if not..maybe it would be delay more..ermmm...now...this morning I got the email from ethical approval person and ask to make the following comments....

- I found the Rationale insufficient, in relation to justifying thestudy and proposed methods. - As far as I can see, the applicant proposes to use an on-line surveyand face-to-face semi-structured Interviews, plus respondent Blogs.??????????????????????? - I think we need much more detail on desired/estimated sample size(irrespective of the Snowballing method); - I think we need to see an outline of the kind of questions planned. Iam not sure how the prospective sample for the on-line survey is to beidentified and accessed. - The answer to the DP (data protection) question is surely wrong, andmust be amended. - The Consent form reads more like an Abstract for a paper or even asummary of the PhD proposal: it must be re-written in lay people'slanguage to clearly explain the purposes of the research, and includemention of the use of findings (PhD thesis plus journal/conferencepapers) and the possibility of withdrawal form the face-to-faceInterviews.

Kind regards,Tim Clements

hard or not just go through..and don't give up dear...it just the research challenges for you....'susah2 dahulu..senang2 kemudian...'

credit for sis siti zaleha and k.a.m.k too to guide me in doing correction just now..they already gain the ethical approval last April......they said it's normal have to do some amendments to get the approval..wallahualam...